No Comment Necessary: Having it Both Ways on Birtherism

At a town hall meeting earlier this month, Rep. Ted Yoho, Republican of Florida, called investigations into the president’s birth certificate a “distraction.” But he also seemed to indicate that he would support a bill launching such an investigation. “Seemed” because he kept wobbling back and forth on the issue. Not a profile in courage, to say the least.

We were down at a Tea Party…and a guy says Steve Stockman’s got a bill that’s gonna look into the birth certificate again. Would you be willing to co-sponsor it? So I called Steve up, I says, when I got back and he says, yeah, we’re doing that. Would you want to get on that? And I said yeah. [applause] … Then I asked, and I want to ask you guys, is that really where we should be spending our time? [Crowd says no] But I’m gonna check into that. Because in order to have freedom, you have to have economic freedom. And our country is at $17 trillion in debt. We need to change the dynamics of that. We need a paradigm shift on our spending. So we can go over here and it can be another distraction. But then they said well, if it is truly illegal he shouldn’t be there and we can get rid of everything he’s done. I said, I agree with that. But is that the best way to spend our time?